FreeBSD 5.1 goodness

Posted on September 7, 2003

I now have a wonderful FreeBSD 5.1 system on my laptop. It works
great, and it feels faster and more responsive than OpenBSD. That's allright, OpenBSD
and FreeBSD have very different goals, very roughly speaking they are
security and performance respectively.

I messed around a little making Firebird
use the flashpluginwrapper
correctly. I had to edit the /usr/X11R6/bin/firebird wrapper
script and insert these lines at the beginning of the code:

I also have the native Java 2 SDK 1.3.1
installed as a plugin, I think it's required to use the Flashplayer. It
also eats around 100 megs of memory when it starts. Urgh!

Firebird is a wonderful browser, and if you're not afraid to edit your
user.js, userChrome.css and
userContent.css files you can make it just about whatever you
want. Look through David Tensers Firebird Tips &
Tricks for inspiration. That page also tell you how to adjust the
language preferences in a HTTP request, something
that's missing from the Tools -> Options... dialog.